Window-bead fastener



A.P.READ. f WINDOW BBAD PASTE-HER.

- Patented Sept. 26, 1.893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALONZO P. READ, OF KENOSHA, WISCONSIN.

WlNDOW-BEAD FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 505,640, dated September 26, 1893 Application filed September 22, 1892. Serial No. 446,542- (N'o model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALONZO P. READ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kenosha, in the county of Kenosha, State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in WVindow-Bead Fasteners, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to devices for adjustably holding window beads in place, and it is designed as an improvement on a device of this character shown and described in United States Letters Patent No. 444,840, issued January 10, 1891, of which I am the sole owner, which has for one of its objects, to hold the bead known as the guide strip, in such a manner that it may be readily removed independently of each other, when it is desired to take out the sash and to make the said guide strip serve as a weather strip, capable of being adjusted into close contact with the sash.

My present invention has for its object, to

accomplish the said object in a much more economical, simple and effectual manner.

With this end in view, my invention consists in certain features of novelty in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts, by which the said object and certain other objects hereinafter described are attained, as fully explained with reference to the accompanying drawings and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the said drawings, Figure 1, is a sectional View of a window, showing the frame provided with my improvements. Fig. 2, is an enlarged detail sectional view, taken on the line 2-2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3, is a face view of one of the sockets by which the guide strip is held, showing it embedded in the window-frame, the bead being omitted. Fig. 4, is a detail sectional view, taken on the line 4--4, Fig. 3. Fig. 5, is a rear view of one of such sockets, the window-frame being omitted. Fig. 6, is a detail View, partly in section, of one of the set-bolts or screws, which co-operate with the sockets in securing the guide-strip in place.

Like signs of reference refer to like parts throughout the several views.

In applying my present improvements to the Window frame, I form at suitable intervals throughout the height of the frame A, a number of cavities B, which being circular, may

be produced by means of an auger or other boring apparatus. These cavities B, are formed at a distance from the edge of the frame A, and they are of less width than the guide-strip or head 0, so as to be completely covered by such strip, and thus entirely excluded from view when the strip is in place. Arranged in each of the cavities B, is a circular socket D, provided with a face-plate E, ar-

ranged fiush with the surface of the frame A,

and provided with a buttonhole shaped slot F, for the passage of the set-bolt or screw G. The socket D is so arranged in its cavity that the slot F therein, will be in a substantially horizontal postion, with its enlarged end f remote from the sash H, and it may be held in this position and against outward displacement, by means of suitable screws I, screwed into the frame A.

The set-bolt G, is provided with a head g, at its lower end, which is sufficiently small to pass through the enlarged end f of the slot, but which, when the bolt is slipped into the contracted portion of the slot, engages under the face-plate E, and thus prevents its withdrawal from the socket D. The lower end of the bolt is provided with a squared portion 9, which is of sufficient thickness to fit squarely in the contracted portion of the slot F, and the strip 0 is provided with a complementary socket or perforation, in which the squared or prismatic portion'g, fits. The purpose of this, is to hold the bolt against rotary movement when the guide-strip O is pulled out ward in such a position as to bring the bolt into the enlarged portion f of the slot, and furthermore, to hold the squared portion 9 in such a position as to readily slip intothe contracted portion of the slot F, when the guide strip is forced toward the window-sash. To the same end, the squared portion g is made of such length that its upper end will remain in the squared perforation of the strip 0, even though the bolt may be in its innermost position,with its head resting against the inner end of cavity B; and where the contracted portion of the slot F joins the enlarged portion f, I round off the edges, as shown more clearly at f in Fig. 3, so as to avoid any possibility of the bolt catching upon the sides of the slot when the strip C is forced toward the sash.

The bolts G, of course, pass through the guide-strip O and their outer ends may be provided with ornamental thumb nuts, J, and between which and the strip may be interposed suitable washers 7'.

It will now be seen that the guide-strip C may be adjusted to and from the sash, as desired, for impinging the sash with the requisite degree of pressure to produce an air-tight joint, and thus serve the two-fold purpose of a guide-strip and a weather-strip; and when it is desired to remove the sash for any cause, the thumb nuts J, may be loosened and the strip 0 drawn away from the sash, until the bolts G enter the enlarged portions f, of the slots F, whereupon the strip may be entirely removed, drawing the heads of the bolts through the enlargement f. In order that the edges of the slots may readily release the heads of the bolts when in this position, I extend each slot to the side portion of the socket D, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5, so that there may be no overhanging edge to engage the head of the bolt, and for the same purpose, I bevel off the under side edges of the enlarged portionfof the slot, as shown atf', Fig. 4.

In order that the guide-strip 0 may be held up to its work, against the sash H, when once adjusted to the proper position and the thumb nuts set, I provide the under side of the plate E along the edges of the contracted portion of the slot F, with a number of teeth or serrations 6, against which the head of the bolt impinges, and by which it is firmly held in place. Bolts of the character shown, and which I prefer to use, are provided at each corner of their squared stems g, with a pinched up portion or seam 9 as shown in Fig. 6, which portions are incidental to the ordinary manner of making the bolts,but which serve as teeth when used in connection with the sockets D, for engaging with the teeth or serrations e. These teeth are prevented from catching against the corners of the slot in the face plate, by rounding such corners off, and beveling their under sides as described.

In order that the lower half only of the guide-strip C may be removed, irrespective of the upper half, when it is desired to simply remove the lower sash, or in order that the lower half only of the guide-strip may be adjusted, I divide the guide-strip at a point slightly above the top of the lower sash, as shown at N, Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1 In a window bead fastener, the combination of the window frame having sockets fitting therein, and each consisting of a rim and the face plate E provided with a slot having a straight portion formed on both its under edges with serrations e', the enlarged portion f extending to the edge of said rim and having rounded corners f where it joins the straight portion of said slot and the under edges of said enlarged portion f being beveled from the said straight portion to the edge of the said rim, the bead and the set bolt passing through said bead and the slot and having a head provided with teeth on its outer side adapted to engage with said serrations, substantially as set forth.

ALONZO P. READ.

Witnesses:

F. A. HOPKINS, R. C. ()MOHUNDRO. 

